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Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.

Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.

More preoccupied with drinking, sleeping, and writing, an unnamed student neglects his studies and invents three separate openings for a novel. The first introduces the Pooka MacPhellimey, "a member of the devil class", the second involves Mr. John Furriskey, a character belonging to another of the student's creations (writer Dermot Trellis), while the final opening features legendary Irish heroes Finn Mac Cool and Mad King Sweeny. Soon, Trellis' creations rebel against him, doing as they like while he sleeps, and the characters begin wandering in and out of each other's tales.

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, it is read by Irish master reader Jim Norton.

Nadar-dos-pájaros es un libro tan sorprendente y original como su propio título: tan incomprensible para el lector español como lo es para el inglés. Esta novela está considerada una de las obras maestras de la narrativa del siglo xx y quien se adentre en ella se encontrará con el maravilloso mundo de O’Brien... Es literatura en estado puro. Una sátira, una comedia, una farsa, un truco de magia, un birlibriloque narrativo... todo eso, y más, es esta novela.